

I feel like this was part of Trump’s plan all along. He sees a place where someone could be making money but isn’t, and that drives him up the f-ing wall. No idea what Trump’s angle on this might be, but considering how much of a hard-on he has for the Panama Canal and how the USA is missing-out on that revenue, I was pretty sure that fees would be charged when the straight of Hormuz reopened.



No disagreement there. He’s not a smart man.
I just have this odd feeling that he can’t stand the idea of anyone leaving money on the table, even if that money was never part of any plan ever before. I really think he might have started the war because for no other reason than Iran wasn’t charging fees for passage through the straight and he couldn’t stand to let it happen. That would be supremely stupid and I think Trump might be just dumb enough to have done it for that reason and only that reason.